Use of an audit with feedback implementation strategy to promote medication error reporting by nurses.

Alison Hutchinson; Vanessa Brotto; Anna Chapman; Anne E Sales; Mohammadreza Mohebbi; Tracey K Bucknall

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Use of an audit with feedback implementation strategy to promote medication error reporting by nurses.

November 25, 2020

Hutchinson A, Brotto V, Chapman A, et al. J Clin Nurs. 2020;29(21-22):4180-4193.

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Audit and feedback are key patient safety strategies intended to improve error reporting behavior. Compared to nurses who did not receive feedback, this study found that audit with feedback did not effectively influence voluntary medication error reporting among nurses in medical and surgical wards at one Australian hospital.

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